# CVE-2026-33934: OpenEMR's Missing Authorization in show-signature.php Allows Portal Patients to Read Staff Signatures

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.0.0.3
- Published: 2026-03-25 · Updated: 2026-03-26

## Affected

- openemr: fixed in 8.0.0.3

## Description

OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Versions prior to 8.0.0.3 have a missing authorization check in `portal/sign/lib/show-signature.php` that allows any authenticated patient portal user to retrieve the drawn signature image of any staff member by supplying an arbitrary `user` value in the POST body. The companion write endpoint (`save-signature.php`) was already hardened against this same issue, but the read endpoint was not updated to match. Version 8.0.0.3 patches the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on openemr, upgrade to a fixed version (8.0.0.3) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/openemr/openemr/security/advisories/GHSA-w9w5-7x6h-657q
- https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/ae7ee1872d2e6300b165e24687cc90cf6847a4e5
- https://github.com/openemr/openemr/releases/tag/v8_0_0_3

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